We, and I’m sure we are not alone, will be filing a FOIA
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We, and I’m sure we are not alone, will be filing a FOIA
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Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Love this guy
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Fuck RFK jr and fuck this administration
Thank you for your leadership @massgovernor.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...
WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
In a metaphor that was too on-the-nose, there was a military flyover in Washington, D.C. that drowned out Epstein survivors who were speaking out. I'm happy to report they persisted.
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
They bombed without warning a non-threatening small boat, which is insane and a violation of international law even if it was carrying contraband which we have no way of knowing, and then gleefully shared it as a snuff video.
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
This will be a big way forward for blue state governors. It's highly constructive resistance to Trump that pundits won't be able to sneer about. As I reported last week, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring ways to buy Covid vaccines in bulk. Now Newsom et al are doing this:
Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...
Sounds like good stoned conversation material. But how will we know if it’s art if it’s unintelligible, man?
The case brought by South Africa v. Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is “arguably the strongest case of genocide that has ever come before the Court.” www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Prioritizing growth over all else will do that
Have you made your plans for Labor Day? Help us take our country back from the billionaires and greedy corporate CEOs. Join us and find an event near you: WorkersLaborDay.org
Yep. Our heat pump maxed out our panel.
It’s a start but those rebates are tiny. A panel upgrade costs multiple thousands around here.
I guess nobody reads replies. As noted above, I have an induction cooktop. Not the same as a dedicated range. The stovetop units are wimpy and noisy and take up lots of counter space.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I have one!
Yep. Super expensive and feels very alpha level product right now. There should be subsidies for the electrical upgrade if the goal is to get everyone off gas.
So wanted to get an induction range. But alas our 100 yr old house. Requires a prohibitively expensive electrical upgrade to the box to swap induction ranges into most existing construction.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
And here’s the finished painted banner—ready for the Monday Labor Day protest. #FightOligarchy #LaborDay #WorkersOverBillionaires
WTF
I think they are too important to just ignore. They have their hands everywhere. An authoritarian takeover is not nearly as possible without Palantir.
Please share widely
The Fight Oligarchy banner is coming together.
“Decades of NRA propaganda and Republican resentment-fueled rage-farming had taken its toll. Minds that were once potentially malleable had closed; their personalities had become both hardened and dumbfounded by the geopolitical complexities for which their worldviews allowed no understanding.”
Breathtakingly bad. Not a single mention of the military occupation of DC. Not a single mention of opposing fascism. Not a single mention of Trump using the DOJ to prosecute perceived enemies. Let’s hear your plan for reforming the courts, restoring democracy and generally standing up to the GOP.
it is absolutely possible for these companies to hard-line this stuff and just refuse to continue interacting, even when users ask them for "help writing a story." The model developers refuse to do it because they don't want any possible limitations. Evil.
fucking christ man
I've been stewing about this for a few days now but I just can't contain it anymore. what the fuck is this bullshit. americabydesign.gov
Making a banner version of my Fight Oligarchy design. Fun to be welding paint 🎨 instead of pixels. #FightOligarchy
As someone who has used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator since the 80s, it’s been depressing to watch Adobe be transformed by their marketing teams from a gold-standard, innovative and essential maker of professional tools into a glitzy bloatware company that is now going over the AI cliff.
He is so good
To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”
If it’s a cryptocurrency, doesn’t that require big energy and water use?
An important point. If CA wants to redraw, we would need a special election because of our state constitution. We should be organizing that now.
A DISGUSTING stain on our judicial system www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Just awful.
Emil Bove misled lawmakers in his confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship when he denied targeting prosecutors who refused to go along with his dismissal of corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
But he was right.
Naïveté for sure, but TBF nobody really saw THIS coming. We have entered a complete alternate universe.
I love Wired. But they buried the lede.
Visit a library.
Rising sea levels due to climate change. Weird that fact is missing from that sentence.
What's in the Epstein files is apparently so bad for Trump that he's now going full "looking for the real killer" and about to pardon the only living person who actually helped run Jeff's teenage girl wurlitzer. Worth noting GM not only procured but also sexually abused the girls herself.
Joined in another “human banner” protest in SF today. This one about immigrant families being targeted by ICE. We Are Familia! So important to get out there with like-minded folks. #FamiliesFirst #AbolishICE
Gross.
The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
Add in the power consumption and CO2 released per query and you’ve got yourself quite the dashboard.
This is one of the biggest and most brazen con jobs in US political history. She is purposefully creating fake evidence for a fake case. This shows the US intelligence community is being led by a liar and charlatan. That’s a threat to national security. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I can’t for the life of me understand why Democrats haven’t made this ghoulish surveillance baron into a public enemy comparable to the role that Soros plays on the right. He’s legitimately a bogeyman.
Move over NYT Needle …
Been saying this for decades. Citizens United set the stage and here we are. I designed these buttons for Credo many years ago.
Wired has really risen to meet the moment. Fearless journalism in the face of the tech autocracy that has developed here.
California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.
Last week, we reported that the Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Latest with @nikkimcr.bsky.social for Rolling Stone:
Had to look it up— yeah, delete that mf
“I think it’s going to take Americans who are not billionaires to save this country, and then we’re going to have a lot of questions for all these rich people who sat around just watching it burn.” 🔥 www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
Never would have predicted that Wired would become one of the leaders of the resistance press. In this era of hostile takeovers of national media, I hope they can stay independent.
And is that an actual for real illustrated cover (AI free)?
Grandparent here: can confirm. Never bought so many berries in my life
“Stochastic gaslighting” is the perfect way to describe the abundance of lying and manipulation being dished out by the right wing in this country. ht @annaleen.bsky.social for the term.
Do not sign “work for hire” agreements. If you do, your client will own everything including concepts, ideas, sketches— even if they were rejected and didn’t make it into the final deliverables. Evil stuff.
Heading out to a local Good Trouble rally in an hour ✊🔥
So agree with this. Those of us who go into the arts rarely end up wealthy, regardless of awards and popularity. If you are talented you can get by and be comfortable and get some joy from doing what you love. Only a small handful of creative people amass fortunes from their work.
The Department of Child Snatching
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
this ☝️.
Thank you for clarifying.
Why is it relevant that she is Jewish?
Damn I love this guy.
EV self driving coal trucks are not the future I want.
The multi-millionaires are not going to save us.
Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp. This broke me… “32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones
This motherfucker is worth 3.3 billion, of course his mother-in-law is not worried about her Social Security check
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
“These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you have seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage.”
Kristi Noem must resign now.
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
Passive voice fail. He was killed.
They killed a farm worker.
Democrats should run ads just of Miller ranting. The screeching voice, the sneering face, even the awkward jerking of his body — it’s like a car alarm took human form. A Tesla alarm, I guess, given the Nazi stuff